“IT Doesn’t Matter” is a famous HBR article by Nick Carr, originally published in 2003. I wonder what companies that followed this advice think of it today. (If they still exist, of course.) hbr.org/2003/05/it-doesnt-ma…
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it was one of the things that led Reed Hastings to push for an early move to cloud. Worked out ok for Netflix...
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I would have argued that that was actually the opposite move, and he decided *only* IT matters
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I suspect different definitions of "IT" here. Carr's paper was about the infrastructural technologies... non-differentiable stuff of running data centers and servers.
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Replying to @mtnygard @adrianco
I’m not sure I agree that’s what it was about. He specifically talks about applications and advocates following instead of leading, reducing investments, etc.

Feb 19, 2018 · 12:40 PM UTC

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Replying to @stilkov @mtnygard @adrianco
I went over it again for my book. When he said IT doesn't matter and minimise investment/risk, he was referring to all IT. Some interpretations have changed post-Cloud but hindsight bias is a killer :)
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